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Lightworks Video Editor Going Open-Source

Phoronix: Lightworks Video Editor Going Open-Source

While there have been video editors on Linux like Cinelerra and Kino for some length of time, and more recently there have been new open-source projects that aim to better non-linear video editing on Linux like OpenShot and PiTiVi, up to this point it's been an area just like gaming: the Linux solutions haven't been great compared to other platforms. However, there's a lot more potential for that to change now that a professional video editor for Linux is being open-sourced...

Google is probably going to announce open sourcing VP8 and pushing it next month at their conference. This is big.

I'd say it be a while before a program such as VP8 or the Lightworks editor be open sourced due to the time to get the code to pass legal muster (patents and 3rd party code)
and to clean it up. Of course any code that cannot be released would then need to be rewritten from scratch.

I'd say it be a while before a program such as VP8 or the Lightworks editor be open sourced due to the time to get the code to pass legal muster (patents and 3rd party code)
and to clean it up. Of course any code that cannot be released would then need to be rewritten from scratch.

Well, google surely has money/manpower to do so. In addition they own everything necessary for 2 months already so I think they could have gone through most of it already. I may be too optimistic of course, we will see.

Varicad is less of a general purpose cad system. It focuses on mechanical design.

What is really needed is something more general purpose like Autocad. Unfortunately not even under wine due to the program going to .net nastiness. What is even worse is that under a virtual machine Autocad is absolutely horrendous (even with acceleration enabled).